Leg attachment for golf bags



Nov. 30, 954 DE WITT E. CARPENTER 2,695,760

LEG ATTACHMENT F OR GOLF BAGS Filed March 9. 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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ATTO RN E Y Nov. 30, 1954 DE WITT E. CARPENTER 2,695,750

LEG ATTACHMENT FOR GOLF BAGS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 9, 1951 INVENTOR. DeWlf E Carpenter ATTORNEY United States Patent 2,695,760 LEG ATTACHMENT EUR GOLF BAGS De Witt E. Carpenter, Detroit, Mich, assignor onehalf to Cecil H. (Iarpenter, Detroit, Mich.

Application March 9, 1951, Serial No. 214,67 3 4 Claims. (Cl. 248-96) This invention relates to leg attachments for golf bags, and may be considered an improvement upon the attachment disclosed in Foley Patent 2,476,718, issued July 19, 1949. The Foley device comprises a clip attachable to the mouth of a golf bag and carrying a pair of legs for elevating the mouth end of the bag as its bottom end rests on the ground, thus affording ready access to the clubs, and also minimizing soiling of the bag. The legs are pivoted to swing about two relatively transverse axes, one affording parallelism of the legs when out of use and a desired relative divergency of the legs in supporting a bag, and the other permitting parallelism of the legs to the bag or a divergency to the latter, according as the attachment is collapsed or in use.

An object of the invention is to very materially simplify provisions heretofore made for maintaining the alternative leg positions and to effect a latching of the legs in non-use position by merely disposing them in such position.

Another object is to maintain a definite mutual divergency of the legs in use much more positively than in earlier attachments.

Another object is to eliminate any such projections from an attachment of the described character as would be troublesome in either carrying a golf bag or storing it compactly, as in the trunk space of a motor vehicle.

A more specific object of the invention is to copivotally mount the upper end portions of a pair of legs of a golf bag attachment upon one leaf of a hinge, so that latch projections of the legs beyond their common pivot will lap the other or fixed leaf of the hinge in a non-use position of the legs, eliminating need for any special latching manipulation to maintain said position.

These and various other objects are attained by the construction hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front view of my improved attachment as positioned for use.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the collapsed attachment.

Fig. 4 is a rear View of the collapsed attachment.

Fig. 5 is a side elevational view of a golf bag as supported by the attachment.

In these views, the reference character 1 designates a plate exteriorly engageable with the mouth portion of a golf bag 2 and having a pair of similar spaced tongues 3, bent to impart a U form to the side portions of the plate, whereby the latter may straddle the wall of the bag at its mouth. Into each tongue is set a screw d for clamping the plate to the bag. Secured to said plate and substantially parallel therewith is a relatively small hinge leaf 5, similarly spaced from the lateral margins of the plate, the securing means being a bolt 6 and nut 6a, said bolt carrying a collar 7 spacing said leaf slightly from the plate. A hinge pin 8 pivots a companion hinge leaf 9 to the leaf 5. The leaf 9 has an approximate ninety-degree swing, whereby it may lie substantially parallel with or substantially transverse to the plate 1. A bolt 10 fixed on the plate 1 establishes one limit for swinging of the leaf 9 and a lug 11 establishes the other limit. Such lug is formed marginally of a plate 12 clamped to .the leaf 5 by the bolt 6. Upon the free or lower end of the leaf 9 is pivoted a pair of similar elongated legs 13 having slightly divergent latch portions 13:: projecting slightly above a bolt 14 which pivots the legs on the leaf. When the legs are collapsed to approximate parallelism (Fig. 3), said latch portions terminally lap the plate 12 and straddle the lug 11. The lapped relation of the latch portions to the plate 12 prevents downward swinging of the leaf 9 on the hinge pin 8, and the straddling of the lug 11 by said portions restrains the legs from swinging on the bolt 14. The mid portions of the legs are interconnected by a pair of toggle links 15, one of which has a manipulating lug 16, said links assuming alignment when the legs are properly diverged and collapsing one on the other as the legs are collapsed. It will appear from preceding description that the hinge leaf 9 forms a mounting for the legs and that the leaf 5 serves to pivot said mounting on the plate 1, adapting the mounting to swing to and from the plate.

When the described attachment is applied to a bag by tightening the screws 4, there is no necessity nor purpose in removal, since the design avoids impediment to carrying the bag or storing it in the usual manner. In their collapsed position, the legs extend adjacent to and lengthwise of the bag, preferably beneath the latter, being restrained from downward swinging on the hinge pin 8, by the lapped relation of the portions 13a to the plate 12., any lateral swinging of the legs in unison being prevented by the straddling relation of the latch portions to the lug 11.. The legs engage each other under sufiicient friction to prevent any accidental divergent swinging thereof from their collapsed position. When it is desired to use the attachment, a golfer first spreads the legs by throwing the links 15 into alignment, and then swings the legs in unison to downwardly diverge them to the bag. The latter may then be supported as in Fig. 5, with its mouth end elevated by the legs. When thus supported, the bag cannot swing materially to either side about the pivot bolt 14, since the leaf 5 then lies between the upper ends of the latch portions 13a, as appears in Fig. 1.

The described automatic latch provision materially reduces cost of the attachment, and saves time and effort in setting the device either for use or non-use.

What I claim is:

1. A golf bag attachment comprising a plate engageable with the mouth portion of a bag exteriorly of such portion, means on such plate for attaching it to the bag, a pair of hinge leaves and a pivotal connection between such leaves, the pivot axis of such connection being transverse to the plate, means for securing one of the leaves substantially rigidly to said plate, the other leaf being swingable about said connection, a pair of legs for elevating the month end portion of the bag, means pivoting corresponding end portions of the legs in an adjacent and mutually lapped relation on the swingable leaf to swing to and from each other in substantial parallelism with such leaf, whereby the legs may assume a position of substantial parallelism with and proximity to each other and are swingable with said swingable leaf to and from the bag, and an element on the rigidly secured leaf, such element and said pivotal connection being lapped by the legs when the legs are in a position of substantial parallelism with each other and are in proximity to the bag, whereby swinging of the legs from the bag is resisted, such element having a portion between and substantially abutted by the legs in said position to resist swinging of the legs as a unit about said pivot means.

2. A golf bag attachment as set forth in claim 1, said end portions of the legs having similar divergently curved extensions beyond said pivot means, proportioned to extend across the pivotal connection of the leaves when the legs are in their said position, such extensions then terminally lapping the secured leaf and thus resisting swinging of the legs about said pivotal connection, such extensions clearing the secured leaf upon diverging of the legs.

3. A golf bag attachment as set forth in claim 2, the specified portion of said element being disposed in the specified position of the legs between and being substantially abutted by said leg extensions to resist swinging of the legs as a unit about said pivotal connection.

4-. A golf bag attachment as set forth in claim 2, the legs with their extensions occupying substantially a common plane, the extensions diverging in said plane as they extend from said pivotal connection, to accommodate the specified portion of said element between such extensions.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,170,891 Graf Feb. 8, 1916 1,970,849 Gunther Aug. 21, 1934 2,476,718 Foley July 19, 1949 

